pt. 1. The Origins of the West. 1. The Seeds of the West. 2. Empires and Indians -- pt. 2. The Federal Government and the Nineteenth-Century West. 3. The Conquest of the West. 4. The Federal Government and the Indians. 5. Exploring the Land. 6. Distributing the Land. 7. Territorial Government -- pt. 3. Transformation and Development. 8. The Transformation of Western Society: Migration. 9. Transforming the Land. 10. The West and the World Economy. 11. The Economic Structure of the West. 12. New Communities and the Western Social Order. 13. Social Conflict. 14. Western Politics -- pt. 4. The Bureaucratic Revolution in the West. 15. At the Centers of Power. 16. On the Peripheries of Power -- pt. 5. Transforming the West. 17. The Depression. 18. War II and Its Aftermath: Reshaping the West -- pt. 6. The Modern West. 19. Rise of the Metropolitan West. 20. The West and the Nation. 21. The Imagined West

Control code

ocm23767196

Dimensions

26 cm

Edition

1st ed.

Extent

xix, 644 pages

Isbn

9780806123660

Lccn

91050309

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

n

Other physical details

illustrations

System control number

(OCoLC)23767196

Context

Context of
"It's your misfortune and none of my own" : a history of the American West, by Richard White